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Israeli gay and trans rights activist Avi Soffer argues the new government has seen a big shift on promoting LGBTI equality in the country

Israel’s first elected gay Member of the Knesset (the Israeli parliament), Nitzan Horowitz, has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using Iran’s persecution of homosexuals to attack it on the world stage while doing nothing to advance gay rights at home.

I am wondering, do we both live in the same country in the same era?

In March 2013, a dramatic change had occurred in the LGBT community lives in Israel. For the first time in years, a government without the Ultra Orthodox Haredi parties was established.

The Greek Government appears to be ready to honor a European Court of Human Rights ruling that it must open its scheme recognizing the relationships of unmarried heterosexual couples to gay couples, with a bill introduced by one of the government coalition parties

The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party announced it would table legislation to extend the civil unions scheme to gay couples after meeting with the Greek Minister of Justice Charalambos Athanassiou on Tuesday.

Jamaican Minister of Justice hints a law banning anti-gay discrimination may be introduced due to pressures to accept ‘Western’ human rights

In response to a report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) criticizing Jamaica for its abuse of its LGBT citizens, the country's Minister of Justice hinted that an anti-discrimination legislation, inclusive of sexual orientation, maybe introduced.

Malawi announced a moratorium on all anti-gay laws and their enforcement in order to encourage a public debate about decriminalising homosexuality

Ralph Kasambara, who is minister of justice and the attorney general of Malawi, stated that move is a bid to encourage a public debate on whether homosexuality should continue to be criminalized.

Speaking with the Malawi Today daily he said:‘There is a moratorium on all such laws, meaning that police will not arrest or prosecute anyone based on these laws. These laws will not be enforced until the time that Parliament makes a decision.

France’s government unveiled the outline of its proposed same-sex marriage which was met by criticism by Catholics and by gay rights activists who state that lack of fertility assistance falls short of full equality

The bill on gay marriage and adoption will be presented on 31 October to the cabinet, but the full text of the proposed bill is still being elaborated, with a final decision on its precise wording, by the French prime minister and president.

Some of the key points of the proposed marriage equality bill was criticised by both LGBT rights groups as well as conservative and Catholic groups.

Lebanese LGBT advocacy organization Helem held a protested demanding immediate halt to the use of the anal probe and virginal exams

Lebanese LGBT advocacy organization Helem held a protest this morning (11 August) in front of the Lebanese ministry of justice in Beirut, demanding immediate halt to the use of the anal probe and vaginal exams (used to test for virginity).

This historic protest was the biggest ever public demonstration of LGBT advocates and their supporter in the Arab world, and a very rare occasion. The only other protest happened in 2008, also in Beirut.